Should Fergie ever tire of his battles with the media over Wayne Rooney or whoever, he could always try a career change.

And there is one interesting vacancy coming up soon which would be ideal for him.

Kim Jong-il is ready to step down as Dear Leader of North Korea and hand over the reigns of power.

He has chosen his youngest son Kim Jong-un to succeed him, but at 27, he is more than a little wet behind the ears to rule a rogue nuclear state.

Fergie would be a much better choice and taking over the world's most isolated state and last bastion of Stalism has its obvious appeal for someone who doesn't appear to like the spotlight.

As a lifelong Socialist, Fergie would feel right at home in the communist state and there are no bay Bentleys are designer bling to corrupt young people.

Fergie loves a good feud whether it's with the BBC or some newspaper and nobody bears a grudge like North Korea, which is technically still at war with the south 57 years after hostilities on the peninsula ended.

He would revel in the North Korean us-against-the-world siege mentality and how he must often wish he could cut himself off like them.

The biggest attraction of the job by far, apart from the temptation to nuke Anfield and Eastlands, would be the media - or lack of it - in the Asian country.

There would be no pesky journalists to annoy him by reporting what he actually said in press conferences when he deems to have one and perhaps best of all, no BBC.

Instead he would directly control the state-run media so that Wayne Rooney's problems would be conveyed to the public as a dastardly plot by agents from Liverpool FC to discredit the young hero of the Democratic People's Republic.

Similarly United's failure to win away this season could be spun into agents from the decadent West cheating to deny their heroes a deserved victory by offering bribes to officials.

Likewise, United's leaky defence would be because their players have been given mind-altering drugs to force them to make the mistakes against their will.

Yes, it would all be so good for Fergie.

Of course, he would have to change his name from Sir Alex Chapman Ferguson and they are not big on royal titles in North Korea.